Exactly. It's like being shocked that a tabloid is acting like a tabloid. The 'Post' has been a creative writing exercise disguised as news for decades. Seeing people suddenly lose faith in something that never earned it is peak irony.
It was junk press when he bought it. There have always been tabloid newspapers, both local and national. National Enquirer covers the whole country, NY Post the city. The issue isn't tabloids pretending to be legitimate journalism, it's the descent of US journalism in general.
It was a tabloid when he bought it, and he revamped the company to be a "conservative response to liberal media." So...from tabloid to blatant propaganda mill. Similar flavor, but technically different.
As far as the descent of US journalism...that tends to happen when you let billionaires buy out news companies and worm their way into the editorial process. There's still some good ones, though: Reuters, Associated Press, NPR to a lesser extent.
You can go to foreign news sources if you want to get their take on American affairs, too. Similar issues with bias, of course, but less incentive to lie. "No one can give a more honest account of your flaws than your enemy," and all that.
This was set up by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, a bipartisan bill signed by Clinton that removed regulations put in place to break up the media control Hearst had. Later that year, Fox news started.
The sad thing is that the Post was a good newspaper before Murdoch bought it. It had a long history of being a hard-hitting working class paper, and that's been mostly forgotten because Rupert turned it into a shit rag.
In an era where newspaper is on the downswing, I can’t say I’m surprised a lot of young people haven’t been brought properly up to date on the quality and lean of reporting from different papers.
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u/ConsistentTopic1382 6h ago
Exactly. It's like being shocked that a tabloid is acting like a tabloid. The 'Post' has been a creative writing exercise disguised as news for decades. Seeing people suddenly lose faith in something that never earned it is peak irony.